@jerry I would never sign up for an instance that wasn't open. I'm not going to be pre-judged by anybody. Just. No.
Ewww.
I understand the administrative burden, but 🤢.
AI bots yaaaaaay
Honestly, Jerry is doing an amazing job.
I mean if you don't like to be pre-judged, you can always self-host?
@13reak You lock down registrations, you're excluding anyone not willing to write an essay justifying themselves.
And there was no attack on Jerry in that.
@clonezone Nothing wrong with open registrations, but it should be done VERY intentionally and only by someone willing to take on that administrative burden. It should be private by default.
@rbos
The "administrative burden" for open registration doesn't rest on the admins of that instance.
- It falls on every user who sees the spam it causes and reports that to their own admins.
- It falls on the admins of all the other instances who have to process these reports, act on them and maybe have to decide if it's better to silence or defederate that instance rather than whacking dozens or hundreds of spambots originating there.
- It falls on all those people who have to clean up the mess after someone got taken in by a scam.
Jerry 🦙💝🦙
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